What the world is eating
A number of interesting things here: how many people in the family, the amount spent on food each week, and what their diet consists of.
GERMANY:
The Melander family of Bargteheide - 2 adults, 2 teenagers
Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07
UNITED STATES:
The Revis family of North Carolina - 2 adults, 2 teenagers
Food expenditure for one week: $341.98
JAPAN:
The Ukita family of Kodaira City - 2 adults, 2 teenagers
Food expenditure for one week: 37,699 Yen or $317.25
ITALY:
The Manzo family of Sicily - 2 adults, 3 kids
Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11
MEXICO:
The Casales family of Cuernavaca - 2 adults, 3 kids
Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos or $189.09
POLAND:
The Sobczynscy family of Konstancin-Jeziorna - 4 adults, 1 teenager
Food expenditure for one week: 582.48 Zlotys or $151.27
EGYPT:
The Ahmed family of Cairo - 7 adults, 5 kids
Food expenditure for one week: 387.85 Egyptian Pounds or $68.53
ECUADOR:
The Ayme family of Tingo - 4 adults, 5 kids
Food expenditure for one week: $31.55
BHUTAN:
The Namgay family of Shingkhey Village - 7 adults, 6 kids
Food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03
CHAD:
The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp - 3 adults, 3 kids
Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23
Source please
Very interesting indeed. However, could you link to the source that you got this from? They way it looks here you make it look like you came up with this yourself. Please give credit where it is due.
Candidasa dasa
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Source
This is from the book "Hungry Planet: What the World Eats" by Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio.
It was also published in Time
You can add the link in a
You can add the link in a comment. You do know it right? I mean, you're not just assuming that I didn't come up with it myself. ;-)
FWIW: Vrajadhama forwarded me this in an email that was forwarded to him.
just see
...how the most expensive diets have lots of meat and alcohol
Re: What the world is eating
Very interesting information and imagery. To add my own: HAWAII, USA: One Hare Krishna adult. Food expenditure for one week: 40 U.S. dollars.
The Bhutanese diet looks
The Bhutanese diet looks pretty good, I could totally handle that, especially with all the chilli! In fact, Bhutan is a fascinating country we can learn a lot from. Their government and system of social organisation is almost certainly the closest thing to a benign ksatriya monarchy and varnasram dharma on Earth right now...